Written Resources

This is the type of story you tell over coffee. The type of story that comes with a snack, so perfectly mundane, so familiar that the telling is not so much a revelation as it is a commiseration. This is the type of story you tell. Too many details to write, too long a story, […]

Nawi – Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective and The African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) would like to thank Wangari Kinoti for her vision, grounded analysis and framing of this paper. It is a timely guide for an African feminist public services agenda that should inform critical ongoing conversations on the continent on how we cope, […]

The debt challenges facing many African countries reside not only in the borrowing but increasingly on the rigidity of the debt architecture and its inability to adjust to the changing creditor and debtor landscape. Legal and policy frameworks have been slow to adjust to the increasing number of private/commercial lenders; emerging bilateral lenders such China, […]

This baseline study identifies and maps out relevant and critical decision-making spaces, processes, and instruments at African and global levels to inform feminist analyses of macroeconomic policy and advocacy

Acknowledging that Africa is the most vulnerable continent to climate change despite having contributed the least in creating this crisis and that African women in their different diversities have been and continue to be disproportionately affected. Climate change is a significant setback to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.During such disasters, women and girls are often […]

An imagining of a future that we are all working towards. An imagining of an African feminist economy. Written by Agazit Abate Edited by Nebila Abdulmelik, Crystal Simeoni, Fatimah Kelleher & Wangari Kinoti Design by Nzilani Simu & Agazit Abate Produced by Nawi Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective Cover Image by Nebila Abdulmelik With a special thanks […]

A perspective from the African continent: Covid-19 has posed new questions for economic policy makers around the world and provided a potential opportunity to rethink the way that macroeconomic policies are designed. Feminists have highlighted the gendered social, political, and economic costs of the pandemic and called for alternative proposals that recognise historical inequalities. This […]

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is arguably the most important trade-related issue currently taking place on the continent.1 It proposes a free trade area among all 55 African Union nations and would be the largest in the world in terms of participating countries since the formation of the WTO. Initially requiring members to […]

Dear Future… Centred in this project is the feminist mantra that the personal is political. This project documents stories from African women around their experiences of life in the times of the first year of the pandemic – in a time of reckoning, where the consequences of economic policies that don’t centre life were brought to […]

Over the past few decades, market-based finance has become central to the global financial system. Huge volumes of financial instruments are traded on a daily basis. In an effort to improve access to global financial markets for African countries, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) – in cooperation with the asset management firm […]